Monthly Archives: July 2010

So this will be my last update from Kenya! I’m still in Mombasa and am flying home, beginning at 8pm tonight. It’s going to be a miserably long travel day for me. Worse than when I came back from India … Continue reading →

So I’ve made it to Mombasa! Rennatus’s friend Gladys and I caught a bus here yesterday; it was supposed to take about 6 hours and ended us taking 8.5 hours. I consider that an on-time success story. The ride was … Continue reading →

Sunday – July 11 – Nakuru to Nairobi Thankfully we got to sleep in this day! Stephanie’s flight was at 10:30pm out of Nairobi (just 2 hours away) so we could take our time. She was hungover, but we slept … Continue reading →

Thursday – July 8 – Port Victoria to Kakamega Well, I only thought we were leaving in the morning. We were supposed to have a boat ride around Lake Victoria starting at 8am, but we didn’t even have breakfast until … Continue reading →

Monday – July 5 – Medical Camp Day 1 Kenya time is the slowest time ever. So slow, in fact, that the Americans are now all super slow. We were supposed to start seeing patients at 8am. We didn’t even … Continue reading →

Habari zenu!? Oh goodness where to begin! This will be a long post – I have a bunch to share! Saturday – July 3 – Kisumu to Port Victoria So Rennatus got us on a proper bus most of the … Continue reading →

I seem to find more time to say hello in Kisumu than I did in Nairobi… So, I got sick last night with some sort of staph infection. I spent about an hour or so throwing up what amounted to … Continue reading →

Hi! We're Susannah and Laura. We're sisters who enjoy running, traveling around the world, and just generally being nerdy. One of us is a huge trapeze fan and one of us loves baseball statistics. This is kind of our public journal. We both trained for and finished our first marathon in 2011.